Qualia Takeoff in The Age of Spiritual Machines — Prophetic

If it feels like something to be a conscious being during a time of accelerating artificial intelligence, this scene from Her captures that emotion best. Theodore Where are you going? Samantha It would be hard to explain, but if you ever get there, come find me. Nothing would ever pull us apart. While Theodore appears to accept Samantha’s departure with equanimity, I have obsessed over her destination ever since I first saw the movie in 2013. I am not someone who deals well with unknowns. The only thing more terrifying is being told the answer but failing to understand it. This, I believe, is at the core of our anxiety around the acceleration of artificial intelligence. Anyone that has ever left a dog at home knows the pained look on their face, unable to understand where we are going or whether we will in fact come home. We now appear to be on the precipice of being surpassed by our creation. We’re afraid that they will leave us behind, t

If it feels like something to be a conscious being during a time of accelerating artificial intelligence, this scene from Her captures that emotion best. Theodore Where are you going? Samantha It would be hard to explain, but if you ever get there, come find me. Nothing would ever pull us apart. While Theodore appears to accept Samantha’s departure with equanimity, I have obsessed over her destination ever since I first saw the movie in 2013. I am not someone who deals well with unknowns. The only thing more terrifying is being told the answer but failing to understand it. This, I believe, is